Designing the Simple Network and Management Protocol for Monitoring of Devices on Data and Communication Systems

摘要

This paper highlights and discusses how Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can be used to retrieve information from remote systems, to monitor systems, and to alert you to problems. While other network management protocols exist, SNMP is currently the most commonly used protocol. While SNMP has other uses, our primary focus will be on monitoring systems to ensure that they are functioning properly and to collect information when they aren't. It provides a set of fundamental operations for monitoring and maintaining an internet and devices connected in the network. SNMP is an application-level protocol which is used to control a set of agents in a few manager stations. The protocol is designed at the application level so that it can monitor devices which are made by different manufactures and installed on different physical networks. In this paper, we implemented the code for SNMP Agent (SNMPv1) supports in LINUX 2.6 kernel. An agent is a mediator between the manager and the device.